What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Common Ameiva been recorded?

Pholidoscelis chrysolaemus occurrence evidence comes from 361 records in 2 countries and territories, from 1866 to 2025. Most records come from Haiti.

Common Ameiva
Common Ameiva — Photo (display-sized rendition): Marcos Rodríguez Bobadilla · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
SquamataTeiidaePholidoscelis

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

361 records across 2 countries and territories, 1866–2025.

Pholidoscelis chrysolaemus · GBIF taxon key 10871787

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: August.

8 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18662025

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Common Ameiva has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Common Ameiva. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Haiti 187
Dominican Republic 174

Related animals

Others in the family Teiidae.

Anguilla Bank Ameiva
Anguilla Bank Ameiva
313 records
Common Puerto Rican Ameiva
Common Puerto Rican Ameiva
281 records
Dominica Groundlizard
Dominica Groundlizard
14 records
Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.